AMA Journal of Ethics^®

Rohingya refugees experience poor health service integration exacerbated by absence of a formal written language.

Health professions education continues to emphasize team-based approaches to improving mutual respect and cultivating trust.

Dr Anne Graff LaDisa joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article, coauthored with Drs Erica Chou, Amy Zelenski, and Sara Lauck: “How to Use Improv to Help Interprofessional Students Respond to Status and Hierarchy in Clinical Practice.”

Several opinions consider interprofessionalism in health professions education and practice.

Lloyd Duplechan joins Ethics Talk to discuss his article, coauthored with Dr David Sine: “Roles of Environmental Services Workers’ Wages and Status in Patient Safety.”

This article applies opinions to organizational obligations and interprofessional collaboration in health care.

Psychiatric aides and technicians are part of direct care workforces in inpatient units who are subject to high rates of violence but earn far less than higher-status clinicians.

Interdisciplinary care requires mutual understanding, trust, and respect.

Professor Nicole Hallet joins Ethics Talk to discuss her article: “Wage Theft and Worker Exploitation in Health Care.”

Cultural failure to recognize tacit knowledge explains why credential-based knowledge has higher status and prioritizes clinicians who do not care on an hour-to-hour basis for most of our country’s elders.